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Kintoreite & Dufrénite

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Kintoreite & Dufrénite

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Description
Locality: 
Adolphine Mine, Oberkleinich, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 2 × 2 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.05cm
Description

You are bidding on a speciem from a interesting less known location where maybe found the best speciems of Kintoreite inside Germany. This speciem shows many small lightbrown crystals up to 0.5 mm large in a parageneses of some darkgreen sprays of Dufrenite up to 1 mm diameter sitting on matrix.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Kintoreite

Formula: 
PbFe3(PO4)(PO3OH)(OH)6
Strunz: 
8.BL.10
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
4.0
Type Locality: 
Kintore opencut, Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia

Dufrénite

Formula: 
Ca0.5Fe2+Fe3+5(PO4)4(OH)6·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.DK.15
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.5
Streak: 
Green
Type Locality: 
Anglar, Haute-Vienne, Limousin, France

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